Re: [PATCH net-next v11 3/6] net: add a generation counter for dev->mc changes

[Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>]

On 10/19/26 13:35, Yuyang Huang wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 8:19 PM Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> I agree this is not a blocker, but I think it would be nice if you could
>> follow-up on this one.
>>
>> The solution proposed by the LLM LGTM.
>>
>> Same here.
>>
>> Also, still speaking of possible follow-up,  I think it would be nice if
>> you could change the addr list lifecycle to RCU (no idea of how much
>> complex would be that).
>>
> 
> Thanks for the review. Since we're already at v12 I'd rather not respin
> just for these, but I agree both are worth fixing, so I'll handle them as
> follow ups.
> 
> The first one is a simple fix, so if v13 ends up being needed
> for other reasons I'll fold it in there, otherwise I'll send it as a
> separate patch.
> 
> The RCU conversion needs more thought and will probably
> cause quite a bit of churn, so I'll try it if there's a v13, and if it
> gets too messy. I'll post it separately later.
To clarify: every I mentioned in my previous email was about possible
follow-ups - not to be included here.

My understanding is that there is sort of a pending/implicit question
from Jakub on v9: why are you doing this? is does it solve some
specific scaling problem or is 'nl is nicer" thing?

/P